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Waterstones carries the six new Princelings paperbacks, and reference a blog post, which tags a Jemima Catlin, not Pett! It lists the hardback of White Water Landings at £29.99 to order (up to 3 weeks, but if most of that is Blurb's turn-round, then you'll probably get it in a week if you're in the UK). It does a Click&Collect service from your local store.

At least this shows that the distribution from Blurb via Ingram is working.

Non-UK customers: check your main retailers, but remember that BookDepository carries most of the books, and delivers free to most countries.

The romance of pre-war air travel meets the romance of a man and a woman kept apart by war in this memoir of a young man and his career in Africa with Imperial Airways.

White Water Landings - views of the Imperial Airways Africa service from the ground - covers intriguing details of the Empire Flying Boat service - from the commissioning of the plane Centaurus to the indiscretions of the passengers, from the dangers of a herd of buffalo at night to the bravery of exiles waiting for transfer via Khartoum and Lagos up to London.

Saturday, 15 August 2015

It's a day for Jemima to write about her love of book series and select her top Middle Grade book series for the entertainment of the many followers of Renee at Mother Daughter Book Reviews today.

Not surprisingly, Jemima chooses many of her fellow BookElves to highlight in this list. She also gives a mention of the next BookElves Anthology, due out in November, and invites people to 'Like' the BookElves Facebook page.